Although UMBC never had a segregated student body, whether by race or gender, our campus has struggled in many ways to increase its diversity of the student body. UMBC is now promoted as a diverse institution and this is part of the defining…
A UMBC Senate passed resolution during the 1970-1971 academic year stated: That the discipline of Afro-American Studies be establish[ed] by September 1971." Mazi Dr. E.N. Njaka was hired as coordinator of the program, with the same status as a…